not lyrically, but the song rise against - this is letting go, musically, is what i'm feeling right now. the mood and such. it's awesome summery weather out and being home all day, while probably needed, is a bit wistfully depressing. i don't think you can use wistful like that but whatever.
anyways, wow, i had a good sleep i guess. slept at....11, 1130? and woke at 920. my body doesn't understand the concept of sleeping in, but any sleep is good after having been awake for 20 hours, and only getting 3.5 hours' sleep before that.
but before i get into that....
tuesday, march 22nd, at eleven - thir-ty, ay-em. one new message.
mom was all of a sudden all let's go to the states, and so that's what we did. to be honest, i don't think the photos i got out of it were worth the long drive there; i'd barely bus for it. but it was pretty cool nevertheless : D first off, it was pretty sunny and shit, and since i had my super-tak along for the ride for the single in march thing, i...well... here i'll just show:
why not get some de-yellowing done during the ride eh? a bit geeky sure, but i didn't get any odd looks or anything, so s'all good ;D (of course, i made sure not to make any eye contact with anyone, so i wouldn't know. also, i took a few along the way there...i used to be apprehensive about taking snaps of stuff while in the car since i'd be all zomggg dirty glass = ubar softttt...
and then i realized i was a bit of a dumbshit for even thinking that. who cares how sharp stuff is ? sure it's nice to be able to see facial hair when cropped in 500000%, but in the hierarchy of what makes or breaks a shot, sharpness isn't all that high up there, i've been learning recently. not neccesarily (though sometimes true) because it's not important, but just because the other stuff - light, composition, presence of bacon - matters so much more.
sooooo, here're some products from that thinking:
this one was with the super-tak. it was insanely bright out, soooo i whipped out the good ol 10-stop ND filter and made it work for its money. cut down the light from 1/6000 to 1/6 of a second (okay i did some ISO compensation too but yeah), and got this cool road blur out of it. slightly missed the focus, but eh who cares.
this one was with the 43. mainly snapped it cause this awesome bridge made it seem like we were going to drive off into the sky; shame it had to be a rapist van infront of me though.
anyways, we came upon a park which we wasn't originally our destination but ended up being our destination, deception pass. it was ridiculously gorgeous, as calvin here demonstrates:
and then we got to our "destination", after another while of driving, and then realized it was a little lame and boring. we promptly stopped by a dairy queen for food, and by some twist of fate, i took my favorite shot of the day there:
also, while searching up directions for stuff......
really, america? really now?
so at this point we were like yeah screw this place. back to deception pass we wentttt!
there was a trail to walk under the bridge - surprisingly, it's so low to the ground at this point that you could climb it. i guess that's why there's a GTFO THE BRIDGE sign there...
this shot marks the first time in god knows how long i took a macro, or took this lens out at all in general. maybe it IS more of a summer lens, as i've been thinking...it was certainly summery weather.
the lady on the right asked me if i was taking a picture of her. i said it was of the trail. that's not really lying, is it?
you may have noticed that i've been lenswhoring. this was with the macro, the above was with the fa43, and the one above that was with the da15. all within 3 steps of each other. oops, i think i broke a prime lens user's code somewhere in there...
also, this shot was interesting in particular to me, cause while taking it (or doing attempt #50 on getting the focus just right), i had a bit of an epiphany - the subject doesn't mean shit. well, it does, but not a lot of shit. several drops max, bird-shit-sized. what does matter, what it's all about, is the light. in this the stone that these mosses were on was shading the bottom of the stem, but the sunlight was peeking over the top, providing backlighting that gave them this great glow. without that, this shot may have been of some interest due to the subject, but not as impactful (though it's not amazing as it is, but still)
i was going to pick this as my single-in-march for the day, with the super-tak 50/1.4. and then i was like screw that, let's do this but with the macro (this was just about at MFD for the tak). result below:
this robin (same one in both shots) was fat as holy hell. probably cause it's american, hurhurhur
i guess i should note at that up till about now or so, i'd been walking alone the whole time (a good 2-3 miles in total, there and back). why? because my mom decided, after walking on ahead while i was doing those moss macros, that a good place to wait for me would be 1 of 10 forks in a little clearing that had, well, 10 forks branching off. instead of the main clearing. so they spent that hour or 1.5 or whatever it was searching for me by waiting by the car/top of the trail, while i'd just thought they'd kept going straight. also, there was no cell reception, to make the party that much more fun. it was good times indeedydo.
on the way home, there were so many cool compositions and lightings along the highway, but i was a bit lazy in getting the camera out. after missing the umpteenth potentially epic shot, i whipped it out at last, and this shot made me not regret it at all. i surprisingly like this shot - totally didn't expect it. also, at f8, my fa43 says fuck you to the dirty-as-hell glass windows and resolves every goddamn detail it can cram onto my poor k-x's sensor.
i saw a rainbow but my mom couldn't see it ): this photo proves i'm not batshit insane.
another, my final, and less cool road shot. yeah...
er, spoke too soon, didn't scroll down in time. driving off into the sunset sky for the win.
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